By PTI
KOLKATA: Two ruling Trinamool Congress staff on a motorcycle have been killed when bombs have been hurled at them in West Bengal’s Birbhum district forward of the panchayat elections, the police mentioned on Sunday.
While the opposition BJP and the Congress alleged that the killings have been a fallout of the TMC’s infighting, the ruling social gathering pointed fingers on the grand outdated social gathering of India.
The superintendent of police of the district was transferred inside 24 hours of the incident, although the administration claimed that the transfer just isn’t associated to the killings.
TMC staff Newton Sheikh and his companion Laltu Sheikh, brother of the native panchayat chief, have been going someplace on a bike when some miscreants hurled bombs at them on Saturday night, police mentioned.
While Newton died at night time, Laltu succumbed to his accidents at SSKM Hospital in Kolkata, the place he was shifted from Rampurhat Hospital within the district.
The family of the deceased individuals alleged that the bombs have been thrown by goons of the Congress because the social gathering was frightened of the “increasing popularity” of the 2 within the space forward of the panchayat polls due this 12 months.
Countering their claims, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mentioned the social gathering has little presence at Margram to have the ability to perform such an assault.
“Everyone knows that the attackers and victims both belong to the TMC,” Chowdhury claimed.
BJP nationwide Vice-President Dilip Ghosh mentioned, “TMC activists are attacking themselves and getting killed in the fight to get the spoils over cut money. The situation will end only after the removal of this regime.”
West Bengal minister and senior TMC chief Firhad Hakim, nevertheless, denied there may be any intra-party rivalry behind the killings.
Giving a twist to the incident, Hakim puzzled whether or not Maoists might be concerned within the assault as Birbhum district shares borders with Jharkhand the place the pink rebels are energetic.
The police ought to examine all points to learn how and why the 2 have been attacked, Hakim mentioned in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities on Sunday transferred Birbhum district Superintendent of Police Nagendra Nath Tripathi and introduced one other IPS officer Bhaskar Mukherjee in his place.
A notification from the state secretariat Nabanna’ mentioned Tripathi has been requested to take over as an officer on particular responsibility (OSD) at West Bengal Police Directorate instantly.
Mukherjee was the SP of the Sunderban Police District.
He might be changed by Koteswara Rao Nalavath, the SP (headquarters), Anti-Corruption Branch, the notification mentioned.
A senior official of the state secretariat described the mini reshuffle in IPS ranks as “purely administrative” although it was effected inside a day of the killing of two TMC activists.
Ghosh claimed that IPS officers, “despite pledging loyalty to the ruling party”, are being shunted and it’s a unhappy commentary over the prevailing scenario.
“This cosmetic step will not help in unearthing the huge number of crude bombs stockpiled by the ruling party ahead of the panchayat elections,” the BJP chief mentioned.
TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen, nevertheless, mentioned it was a purely administrative choice.
KOLKATA: Two ruling Trinamool Congress staff on a motorcycle have been killed when bombs have been hurled at them in West Bengal’s Birbhum district forward of the panchayat elections, the police mentioned on Sunday.
While the opposition BJP and the Congress alleged that the killings have been a fallout of the TMC’s infighting, the ruling social gathering pointed fingers on the grand outdated social gathering of India.
The superintendent of police of the district was transferred inside 24 hours of the incident, although the administration claimed that the transfer just isn’t associated to the killings.
TMC staff Newton Sheikh and his companion Laltu Sheikh, brother of the native panchayat chief, have been going someplace on a bike when some miscreants hurled bombs at them on Saturday night, police mentioned.
While Newton died at night time, Laltu succumbed to his accidents at SSKM Hospital in Kolkata, the place he was shifted from Rampurhat Hospital within the district.
The family of the deceased individuals alleged that the bombs have been thrown by goons of the Congress because the social gathering was frightened of the “increasing popularity” of the 2 within the space forward of the panchayat polls due this 12 months.
Countering their claims, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mentioned the social gathering has little presence at Margram to have the ability to perform such an assault.
“Everyone knows that the attackers and victims both belong to the TMC,” Chowdhury claimed.
BJP nationwide Vice-President Dilip Ghosh mentioned, “TMC activists are attacking themselves and getting killed in the fight to get the spoils over cut money. The situation will end only after the removal of this regime.”
West Bengal minister and senior TMC chief Firhad Hakim, nevertheless, denied there may be any intra-party rivalry behind the killings.
Giving a twist to the incident, Hakim puzzled whether or not Maoists might be concerned within the assault as Birbhum district shares borders with Jharkhand the place the pink rebels are energetic.
The police ought to examine all points to learn how and why the 2 have been attacked, Hakim mentioned in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities on Sunday transferred Birbhum district Superintendent of Police Nagendra Nath Tripathi and introduced one other IPS officer Bhaskar Mukherjee in his place.
A notification from the state secretariat Nabanna’ mentioned Tripathi has been requested to take over as an officer on particular responsibility (OSD) at West Bengal Police Directorate instantly.
Mukherjee was the SP of the Sunderban Police District.
He might be changed by Koteswara Rao Nalavath, the SP (headquarters), Anti-Corruption Branch, the notification mentioned.
A senior official of the state secretariat described the mini reshuffle in IPS ranks as “purely administrative” although it was effected inside a day of the killing of two TMC activists.
Ghosh claimed that IPS officers, “despite pledging loyalty to the ruling party”, are being shunted and it’s a unhappy commentary over the prevailing scenario.
“This cosmetic step will not help in unearthing the huge number of crude bombs stockpiled by the ruling party ahead of the panchayat elections,” the BJP chief mentioned.
TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen, nevertheless, mentioned it was a purely administrative choice.
